In the Media
Backcountry skiers and snowboarders have a new tool to explore regional daily avalanche danger levels.
A web-based map, created by students and faculty at Western Washington University, takes the regional avalanche forecasts issued by the Northwest Weather and Avalanche Center and displays the same information spatially. This allows backcountry travelers to zoom into specific regions and examine the forecast avalanche danger. But it also prevents users from zooming in too closely, because the forecasts are regional, not site-specific.
The Western Washington University men's basketball team was No. 1 for the third straight week in the NCAA Division II West Region ratings announced Wednesday, Feb. 29.
It was the final poll of the season with selections for the West Regional slated for Sunday night. Barring any surprises, the Vikings will be the No. 1 seed and host this year's regional which takes place March 9-12.
Seventeen Western Washington University indoor track and field athletes were named West Region all-stars Wednesday, Feb. 29, by the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association.
The top five from each region in individual events and each member of a relay ranked in the region's top three earned the all-region distinction for the 2012 indoor season.
The Western Washington University women's basketball team moved up one spot for the third straight week to No. 4 in the NCAA Division II West Region ratings announced Wednesday, Feb. 29.
It was the final poll of the season with selections for the West Regional slated for Sunday night.
Six people will tell their stories of volunteering in the Peace Corps as part of a celebration of more than 50 years of service abroad called "Peace Corps Then and Now" on Thursday, March 1, at Western Washington University.
The event begins at 7 p.m. in the Viking Union, room 552.
The Peace Corps recognizes the first week of March as Peace Corps Week to commemorate the signing of President John F. Kennedy's order establishing the federal agency March 1, 1961.
Educators, prosecutors and providers of health and human services cheered Senate Democrats on Tuesday for their plan to rebalance the state budget without new cuts to schools, colleges and major social service programs.
Now all Senate leaders have to do is round up 25 of the 49 senators to approve it.
"Not yet," Sen. Ed Murray, D-Seattle, said when asked Tuesday if he's got enough votes to pass what he cobbled together as the chamber's chief budget writer.
Oscar-winning director and Western Washington University alumnus T.J. Martin is returning to campus on Thursday for a screening of his documentary "Undefeated."
The film won the Oscar for "best feature documentary" on Sunday.
As part of a Western Washington University term project the Mason County Division of Emergency Management will be hosting a presentation by WWU students on their project to develop a Community Wildfire Protection Plan for Mason County.
THE memory of a Banbury girl is being honoured with a play derived from her personal diary entries.
Aspiring actor Sophie Large was 19 years old when she was tragically killed in a car accident near her Chacombe home in 1998.
Her parents Cherry and Stephen Large coped with their loss by setting up a charity in their daughter’s name.
Theories are abundant, but one thing is clear about this Western Washington University men’s basketball team.
It lives for the big moment.
The Vikings come to the Great Northwest Athletic Conference championships this week at Marcus Pavilion in Lacey as the tournament’s top seed. They, along with Alaska Anchorage, have earned a bye into the semifinals Friday.